We performed a comparison between AppDynamics Application Analytics and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Operations Analytics solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"Application Analytics' most valuable features are the real-user monitoring and the agents installed in the software stack on the application server."
"All the metrics are baselines in networks, infrastructure, application, and user experience. AppDynamics offers its own query language. It is called ADQL. You can write code of any kind to do queries and analysis and you can use those within the reporting or within other research."
"Provides good overall application performance and transaction errors."
"Immediately allows you to see the relationships between the different nodes."
"We had no issues with scalability. It was very good for us."
"It's pretty stable."
"The analytics are great."
"It's very flexible. If you look from the cloud implementation it is there. Reports are made quickly. Unlike other tools, it caters to all kinds of technical information on the front very easily. There's no need to put in any technical information. You can pull on the reports very easily, take action, and notify stakeholders."
"Splunk works based on parsing log files."
"The product provides visibility and enables us to correlate data and generate alerts."
"The most valuable features are how stable and easy to use Splunk is."
"My favorite example of improving of organization is saving a $60k/mo in payroll fraud and $10k/mo in wasted API credits by using simple searches and clear reports."
"I have not seen any outages in the product in the past two years that it has been running in our company, so I think it is good when it comes to the stability part."
"We solve issues that we previously could not since we now have the data."
"It gives us the liberty to do more in terms of use cases."
"This is an expensive solution."
"This feature needs to be properly described to a client, and then the client needs to have a use case. There are some clients which do not need it and some clients who do. It is not for everyone and is dependant on their use case."
"The challenge in the installation is that you have to configure a lot of things manually. The way you install and configure it is not straightforward."
"Customization requires a few manual tweaks."
"The user experience is quite confusing. There are too many different development stages. The UI is not very intuitive."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"Application Analytics' performance in pure and native cloud environments could be improved."
"You do need a lot of training and certification with this product."
"Missing capability for audio/video and image processing."
"The historical data extraction needs improvement. I would like the capability of taking data and having it trend longer."
"Most of my interaction is with the user community, which is how Splunk wants it. When I need help, that community is very hit or miss."
"The setup time is quite long."
"It is a good product, but the Achilles heel for a lot of organizations is the cost model for it because it gets expensive. That's because the model is based on how much data it processes a day, which can be prohibitive, especially if you have a lot of data. A lot of customers may not be ready for the sticker shock on how to fully leverage the product. I realized that the reason for that is that when it was originally designed, it was kind of like a big data modeling application. If they want to have a bigger customer base, they can come out with subsets of their product that are focused on specific things and have different pricing models. It may help with the cost."
"The administration of the cluster and app deployment to indexers or search heads can be done only using ssh access and command line, there is no GUI tools for that."
"The pricing can be better."
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AppDynamics Application Analytics is ranked 10th in IT Operations Analytics with 11 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in IT Operations Analytics with 235 reviews. AppDynamics Application Analytics is rated 8.2, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of AppDynamics Application Analytics writes "Offers very good application performance and features which reflect backend health". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk Enterprise Security writes "It has a drag-and-drop interface, so you don't need to know SQL or Java to construct a query ". AppDynamics Application Analytics is most compared with , whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel. See our AppDynamics Application Analytics vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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